Victoria Tomei is a professional artist who loves movement and the many different genres of dance. Her curiosity in the arts has pushed her to new heights in her training and performative experiences. She has trained in Jazz, Ballet, Modern (Limon and Graham), Urban, Contemporary, and West African and has learned from esteemed Canadian instructors such as: Vicki St. Denys, Tanya Evidante, Robert Glumbeck, Louis Laberge-Cote, Arsenio Andrade, Kate Hilliard, Raoul Wilke, Lauren Cook, and Lua Shayenne. Victoria has worked with renowned choreographers such as Dylan Crossman (Cunningham Trust), Alysa Pires, and Bobbi Jene Smith to name a few.  She has also had the privilege of working with Kenny Pearl in his Winter Intensive. Along with choreographers, she learned excerpts from historic repertoire by David Earle. Victoria has pursued studies with Canadian producer Peggy Shannon and Alyssa Martin in Hydra, Greece. She has adapted her choreographic and performance practice to film when she collaborated with Fall For Dance North on a film that premiered in their Fall 2020 virtual program. More recently, Victoria has expanded her training and experience abroad in Europe with Orsolina 28 in Moncalvo, Turin, Italy where she worked with artistic director of Ballet BC, Medhi Walerski. She has also trained with dance artist Oleg Stepanov at B12 Research in Berlin, Germany. She is a 2021 graduate from Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Performance (formerly Ryerson University) completing her studies with a BFA in Dance. She is currently working with artistic director Emily Cheung in her contemporary dance company Little Pear Garden, learning contemporary and classical chinese repertoire. Victoria interested in the physical tendencies of human interactions and how they can intertwine into a new movement language. She is open to the unique possibilities that these ideas contribute to her development as a movement professional.